This years edition of the famous Baja California Off-Road race will see La Paz with the finish-line. (In Fidepaz) This is the 43rd running of the grand-daddy of all desert off-road races and “The Baja” finished the last time 2006 in La Paz. This time the competitors have 1061.69 miles to cover with 10 physical checkpoints, 20 visual checkpoints plus the finish line. The race starts coming Thursday, 18. November 2010 on Blvd. Costero, adjacent to the Riviera del Pacifico Cultural Center in Ensenada; Finishes adjacent to SCORE Headquarters Grand Plaza hotel and the Baja California Sur tourism office on the outskirts of La Paz. There are over 300 entries from 37 U.S. States, and 19 countries expected to start. All vehicles will have a 45-hour time limit from the time they start.
In the 43-year history of the SCORE Baja 1000, this will be the 36th time the race has started in Ensenada and the 18th time it has finished in La Paz.
Colorful pre-race festivities begin Tuesday for the 43rd Anniversary celebration of the legendary Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 race, but when the green flag drops on Thursday morning in Ensenada, Baja California, the racing will be as intense as it gets with 2010 SCORE Desert Series season point championships on the line. The granddaddy of all desert races, which is the season-finale of the five-race 2010 SCORE Desert Series will be held on Mexico’s magnificently mysterious Baja California peninsula Tuesday through Saturday.

Massive crowds reaching nearly 250,000 are anticipated to again be spread out along the rugged 1,061.69-mile course that travels on both sides of the peninsula as the world’s most famous desert race will start in Ensenada, Baja California and finish all the way down the peninsula in La Paz in Baja California Sur.
The talented field of desert-racing veterans includes 109 racers who have combined for 323 class wins in this race. In that group are 13 racers who have combined for a total of 39 overall 4-wheel vehicle wins and six more riders who have combined for a total of 27 overall motorcycle victories. Included in the past overall winner’s group are the last six 4-Wheel winners and the last 13 motorcycle winners.
One of the special entries this year is three-time SCORE Baja 1000 overall champion Ivan “Ironman” Stewart who will drive the final section to the finish line in a Toyota 4Runner in the Stock Mini class. Stewart has a total of 22 career class wins in the three SCORE Baja races.

Among the other entries venerable Hall, Reno, Nev., the only individual who has raced in all 42 previous Tecate SCORE Baja 1000 races.
The legendary Hall has a race-record 21 career class wins in this event and is the only driver to have competed every year (all in a car or truck class). Hall, who will turn 73 on Nov. 22, will be looking for two more class wins this year as he is entered as the second driver for his sons Josh and Chad Hall in SCORE Trophy-Truck in the new No. 61 Rod Hall Racing Chevy Silverado and in Stock Full as a driver for Sam Edgar in the No. 861 Hummer H3Alpha. As a family, the Halls have 33 class wins in this race as Chad has eight and Josh has won his class four times.
With 10 mandatory checkpoints and 20 visual checkpoints spread down the peninsula, the course starts on the Pacific Ocean-side of Baja California in Ensenada and heads southeast to San Felipe on the Sea of Cortez before heading south through Coco’s Corner, Bahia de Los Angeles, San Ignacio, back to the Pacific at San Juanico, then back to the Sea of Cortez at Loreto, back to the Pacific at Ciudad Insurgentes heading down along the Pacific through Santa Rita before turning back east and down into La Paz for the finish.

Useful links below or at this Baja 1000 page…
With the support of A1 L.E. La Paz, several “motor-sport crazy” Paceno’s live reporting will be available through the special Baja 1000 Live – por La Paz website as well the independent SCORE Baja 1000 website will have live audio and video steaming updates starting with contingency and other locations around the course. The finish line reporting comes from Puro Off-Road La Paz – heck yeah, they should be able to see it from their first floor window I recall (almost at least).

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